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India is a very important player in the two-day global conference of
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Wednesday, a top diplomat says.

"India is a very
important country (for the meet). In fact, India is a country that
is even more multi-faceted (than the event's hosts)," Doulat
Kuanyshev, ambassador-at-large in the Kazakhstan foreign ministry,
said of the third Congress of World and Traditional Religions that
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev inaugurated.

Noting that both
Hindus and Muslims were representing India at the Congress, he said:
"They (the two communities bring specific inputs to the
discussions."

In this context,
he singled out the contribution of Kala Dhananjay Acharya, the
director of the Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskriti Peetham, who is both a
delegate at the congress and a member of its permanent secretariat.

"I am fascinated
by Acharya's work with the secretariat. She has been able to bring
both a theoretical and scientific language into its work. I find her
most rationalistic," Kuanyshev added.

India is
represented at the meet by 17 delegates. Five each are
representatives of Hindus, Muslims and Zoroastrianism, while three
from the Swaminarayan sect are special invitees.

Academics,
clerics and leaders from 60 nations, including India, have gathered
for the two-day meet to deliberate on the prospects of peaceful
coexistence among the world's religions amid growing extremism and
violence.

Being held at a
unique pyramid-shaped building here, the conference is a bold
reminder to the world that people of different faiths and ethnic
backgrounds can and should live together in peace, its organisers
say.

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